Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1881, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 13, 1881—EIGHTEEN PAGES. = 74T ESTATE AND LOANS W GEO.M. BOGUE, TATEAGENCY, R00M § REAPER BLOCK, No. 07 Clark-st., Chicago.} 2] 1d on commission. propets BOn B A e care und mauagement Euste, lected. "mfl‘:’gfiflfls‘fn‘gu arefully looked after. flolmes & Brother, JEALESTATE 41D L0ARS, GENERAL BROKERS, No. 86 Wa_shington-st. 154 HOLXES EDGAR HO. MES, S.H. }{erfoot & Co., JAL ISTATE BRORERS, g1 Dearborn-st. gscs 1520 bavo been capaged in the Regular REAL ESTATE AGENCY - Chicago, and have atall times for sale T O O O roparts. il “’Efi’flé‘fii}flxfmcs SOLICITED. F.A.BRAGG & CO. Real Estate Loans. - g1 Washington-st. ‘£ J. GOODRICH, 51 MAJOR BLOCK, 145 LA SALLE-ST. 'Real Estate. TFusiclass Business, Residence, Manufacturing, and ezt Property recresented. Theattendon of cagitsl sceking investment solicited E3pert in Beal Estate Va watons. " HONEY 10 L0AX On Chizago Real Estate in sums of $1,000 108100,000, at lowest rates. : HENRY WALLER, JR., g7 Dearborn-st. (HCAGO REAL ESTATE CALL BOARD MONTHLY SALES AT AUCTION. CHANDLER &£CO.,Trustees. W.E.NIXON, Manager. 116 & 118 Dearborn-st. CHANDLER & CO,, Mortgage Bankers. LGANS ON REAL ESTATE. NO. 72 DEARBORN-ST. ~GRIFFIN & DWIGHT, WEST SIDE Rezl Estate and Loan Brokers, Cor. Washington and Halsted-sts. FRANCIS B. PEABODY & CO. 108KS 00N REAL ESTATE, terest Tate. 6 per cent. FOR SALE OF REAL ESTATE. 174 Dearborn-st. A. LOEB & BRO. ’ Uiney Tonaed on Real Fstal, 129 & 131 La Salle-st. Kensington Lots, ADIOINING THE PULLMAN CAR-WORKS, Porssleon easy terms by C. B SAWYER, Corner WattinRion and DeAsbORaALs, Take the Elevator. Chicago. 'E. S. DREYER & CO,, BAKKERS, LOANS AND REAL ESTATE, -88 Washi gto: cago. HUTCHINSON.BROS,, REAL ESTA’I\?DE DEALERS AN L LOAN BROKERS, 110 Dearborn-st., Room 15, Chicago. '] . WHITE & CO,, HEAL FTATE XD LDAN AGENTS, A Specialty of Business Property. Room 4 Reaper Block, g7 Clark-st. BAIRD & BRADLEY, L, e Eta, & Bonting Aowny, No. go La Sall COERCION, IN IRELAND. AGENTS t. For The Chicago Tribune. 4 A!:Imi submeryed in Sorrow’s tears, island crush’d by tyrant's sway, ses trom surrounding tears, Tpase Sunshine chasug shades away. e dark impending gloom which hung i und its peaceful zenith, cast d Illl of wretched woes among Peuple’s love, too grand to blast. The tation felt thy e spreading gloom movtich bemmed ber 1 on every slde. };‘genml which were wont to bloom, i faded $om the lund and dicd. Mmen'r laugh which tifled the plain, \ed musicked every grove and bow'r, !;Y-Illed within that 3ad domain, @ - Husled by the tyrant's dumning pow'r. fi‘s-h}md which Freedom gave to song, 1nga 0 PeRCC and ‘rlemy crown'd her brow, Rfamine’s dread distress too lony, 5 be“’“l!h tyrant’s rule, was crushed tilinow. . “Aeg overburdencd woes pressad on, Swess KTéver threats than mocking wo ,figl all the glories sho bad won, 3¢ armed berself to meet the foa. gg;morwns the Sage's lore: - The Sword, the pen which told to men u;'tvngs for which she bled before, 0204 dared tostand and bleed again. ;: 'H!t’ary mount, in gien and vale, 'h::xf People met to change her laws, ! wndlurds fa thelr efforts fatl meet the issues Union draws. The Governmy e ental gory head, e b e orrors fed, Arites from it blo’;d_v ‘mire, o “i!amonsxer im, with teadish frown, AnS:satiated'yet wirn snre, ther code of laws lags down, Tosluy old Ireland's 2005 once more. aa P. C.’T. BREES. 50 il b pata 1 ¥ilinot cure or helpc.'r i‘)’&’ifi?‘&?“ Sompldn) 4 but to 1 twenty-six feet beyond the building. REAL ESTATE., Despite the Weather. The Burlington & Quincy Will Put Their Office Building on Fravklin Street, The Old Post-Ofico and the First™ Na- tional—~Sale of the 01 Chit- tenden Lot Rise in Rents—Cheap T_ransit‘ for Chicago—Miscel~ laneous. ‘There was a quiet real estate market dur- ing the week. Some buyers are in the mar- ket: but inquiries are limited by the weather, which has been so inclement as to forbid the showing of property. As the season ad- vances g NEW BUILDING SCHEMES are coming up. though. building will be un- usually late this year on account of the weather. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad have had the plans drawn for the office building they provose to build on their loton the corner of Adams and Franklin streets. It will be of brick with stone trim- wings, will be five stories high, and will cost $200,000. This puts at rest all conjectures about a trade ' having bLeen made with the Burlington by which, in the interest of ad- Joining property-owners, it was to be induced to build clsewhere. 3 The First National Bank have' decided not to pull down the OLD POST-OFFICE BUILDING, reconstruct it. On May 1, when Mr. Haverly leaves, Mr. Burling, the architeet, will take it in hand. Jackscrews will be put under the building, and it will be ralsed six feet. This will make the first floor seven ‘feet above the street and will give room fora first-ctass basement. Two stories will be added, making the building thirty feet higher than itisnow. The OUTLAY WILL BE $100,000.. ‘The alley no rth of the building is at present thirty-six feet wide, and the lot extends it is proposed also to lengthen out the structure twenty-two feet, which would give an alley- way fourteen feet wide. The First National wishes to buy the property, and has made a Pproposition to the Board of Education for the purchase. Mr. Cyrus Wilcox will build at the corner of Jackson and State a four-story brick build- ing for oftices. It will cost $29,000. On the southwest corher of ilalsted and Lake will be put up this spring a four-story brick building, 30510, to boused for stores and flats. Foundations have already been Taid for several substantial buildings on the property heretofore unoccupied in the vicini- ty of West Lake and Union streets. Mr. U. P. Smith will, as soon"as the weather permits, tinish the seven houses began last tall on his purchase ON THE LAKE SHORE, south of Thirty-first streer. Several more, houses are uunder contract for individuals who wish to, purchase. Mr. Swmith buitds his houses to order, allowing intending pur- chasers the right to change plans to suit themselves. He owns the whole tract on the lake shore, from the lake east to South Park avenue, and from Thirty-third street to a point 300 feet south of Thirty-ficst street. This Is the old Camp Douglas tract, and in- cludes thirty acres, with 7,00 feet of front- age, 500 of it on the lake shore. Mr. Smith’s plans look to the gradual improvement of this whole tract with houses, costing $5,000 10,510,000, to be builé as called for. ’ IN THE BUILDING PERMITS ¥ of the week were those to L. L. Mayer to erect a two-story brick dwelling, 20x43 feet, at No. 2335 Michigan avenue, to cost 39,0005 Garrett Biblical Institute, four-story brick, basement, 20xs2 feet, No. 234+ Lake street, §6,000; Alston Manufacturing Co'noany, three-story brick factory, 60583, Currier and Crittenden, $25,000; \W. IL and J. J. Wesf two-story . dwelling, _23x51, Harrison an Hoyne, $7,000; John Krus, one-story brick cottage, 20532, Twentieth and Pauiina, $1,000; Philip Dreesbach, three-story brick dwelling, 21360, No. 351 Clark street, $6,000; James Stinson to erect a three-story brick factory, 40x80 feet, at Nos. 99 and 10 Mouroe street, 1o cost 57,000; Fred Blauer, three-story brick factory, 205100 feet, No. 123 North La Salle street, to cost $8,000; James McGivern, addi tion to Nos. 29 and 31 Hubbard street, 32,00 George W. Higmins, five 2-story dwellings, 18 x35 each, Nos. 03 to_411_West Van Buren street, $4,000; C. D. Martin, 2-story dwellg, 20x40, No. 15 Taylor street, 51,5005 C. D. Mar- tie, 2-story dwelling, 20x%, No. 217 Third avenue, 33,0005 C. D. Martin, 2-story dwell- ing, 20x48, No. 221 Third avenue, $1,500; D. Martin, four 2-story dwellings, 20x10 each, Nos. 22 to 27} Third avenue, Z36,0005 Holmes & Pyatt, repairs to building corner Jefferson and lake streets, damaged by fire, $5,000; Morton Frog and Crossing Company. 1-story factory, No. 66 Pacific avenue, $2,000; Frank _Lander, 8-story store and dwelling, 25x72, No. 56 Canalport avenue, 56,000, SALES. The “old Chittenden.lot” on Dearborn street, north of Randolph, sixty-two feet front, with irregular deoth, has been sold for $60,000, an-advance of 510,000 on the price asked two months ago. i Adolph Loeb & Brother sold this week two lots -on Wallace street, near Forty-fifth street, to John Waish, for $2,030; two lots ou Winter street to Patrick Lee for 51,6005 forty-five acres in the Town_of Jetferson to Christian Damling for $7,875; two lots on Bissel street, near Ceatre, to Mr. Pauling, for §1,500: and a dwelling’on North La Salle street at $12,000. : The Schroeder Brothers sold thirty-nine feet on Market, between Monroe und Madi- son streets, ecast front, at $600 a foot. A first-class wholesale store will be erected on Good Inquiry for la,rgamsI Mr. F. A. Bragg sold a piece of acre prop- erty at Halsted and Fifty-fifth street for £60,000. For a tract of forty acres on Sixty-third street, near Woodlawn station, $35.000 hos been offered. The Chicago Real Estate Call Board will hold its FIFTH PUBLIC SALE 5 on Wednesday, at 2 p. w. Twenty-seven pieces will be offered. A new feature of the Erox!mm under the head of ‘ClassC, the roker’s Call,” is thus referred to: Entrics and sales free ot charge toall real- estate agents and brokers, und limited to tweaty numbers. All sales subject to an auctioneer’s fee of one-huif per cent, to be paid by the pur- chuser. Bids and otfers will be announced. und the quotations made will be ziven for publica- tion. Al the termination of tho cull of each number opportunity will be had for aay real | estateé_agent or broker to offer other lots in’ same block or vicinity, and when offered bids will be received, even thourh the property be not listed in the catalog. The above terms ap- ply only to this special cluss, and all sales ef- feeted depend upon asreement of buyer and selier,—that is. when offers are taken or bids nc- cepted. Class G will only be opened for entries for the next call. H.J. Steele, Master in_Chancery of the Superior Court, sold the forty feet front on the east_side of State street, Iying forty feet south of the corner of rmon court, and extending back 13815 fees to the alley, to- gether with the fifcy-five feet adjeining it on the rear end and fronting on the south side of 1larmon court, for $14,550 cash. The pur- chaser was Richard S. Cox, of Galesburg. W. P. Larkin has sold at Humboldt Park one brick residence for $2,100, one cottage for S1,300, one frame residence for $I,500, and nine lots from $300 to $700 each, D. Snyder has sold the S. E. & of the N. E. i of 56,.85, 14, forty acres, for SX0 an Mn:l. T;‘x:iia llest t:l_ean:le {‘nke Shore Rail- road on hty-third streel Willim . Stokes sold. for Lenry F. Hop- penstedt Lot 9, Block 24, Ozdew’s Addition, to Hugh Todd, Esq., for £6, X0, SATURDAY'S TBAN FERS. The_followiny instriwents were filed for record Saturday, March I ¥ CITY PROPERTY. Bissell st, 202 £t n of Willow st. w f, 24x125 ft, improved, dated March 11(John Haf-s ferkamp to Leonard Nazke). 1,000 Hubburd st, 48 {t ¢ of Robey st. : ftwo Ferdinand st, dated March 11 (S. 1% and W, R, Davies to Helen 8. James) - Wentworth ay, n w_cor of Finneil i, ¢ £, |12 City—Sales, 1495 West Thirteenth . place, 14 1t w of Paulloast. s f, 24x83 fr, duted March § nisely to Tnomas Thomp- 62 rat-at, e I, dated March' 11 (Master in 30x115 ft, Chancery to B B.Smith).....eeevier oo West, Erje st, 2 {t w of Armourst, & f, 25 X125 ft, duted March 9(». J. und W.Lister to Austin Guoderson) .. .. ‘North Hoyne st, 50 ft 5 of Le Moyne, e ft, *24x150 Tt, improved, dated March 11 (F. 0. Sustad 1o Martin Delancy)........ Bedgwick st, 44% ftnof Schillerst, wf, 2x00 {t, dated March 9 (Conrad Gehrke 10 JRCOD LOWY). ..oureonuesrunes ouzonzin Thirty-eighth-st, 50 ft ¢ of Gufi. n £, 50X 147 11, dated March 11 (J. E. Tyler to Agn Sullivan). coens sn s Homan av, 8 e cor of West Washington 8L w f, 145 2-10x200 ft, dated Muarch 1 (MI‘Ch 1 F. Heenan to James H. Walk- er).... s eeianianiat . West Lake st. 151 ft ¢ of Hoyneav, n f, 2x115 ft, dated Feb. 28 (Charles Gotts- chalk to Paulino Bluthardd........ ... 8,000 Buttertleld st, 216 ft n ot Tweaty-ninth st, w f, 25x100 ft, dated March 11 (B. B. Bullwinkle to Phillp Berna). .....e... o Ashland av, 70 1t s of Jullnn st, e £, 24x100 1z, improved, dated March 11 (Willilam L. Moss to John Kithamel) R Fulton st, 56 4-10 {t w of Unkleyayv, s f, 10x100 ft, dated Maroh 11 (John E. Tur- ney to Myra C. Swith)......... ;e Lake st, 663 ft e of Wabasb av,u f, 100 fr, fmproved, dated March T A. Ely to Frederick C, Porter). aaeas Portland av, near Thirty-sixth st, w f, 25 x125% ft, dated March 11 (D. K. Pear- | sona to Anton Hronek)........ ‘Townsend st. 96 ftnof White, w1, 24x125 ft, dated March 7 (3. and H. Thomas to Henry Bormaaon).. .- Dearborn av, 100 ft s of North, e f, 10x148 Tt, duted March 1 (John B. Grommes to Srah O. Egan),.. 5 forgun st, 163 ft 0 Of West Adams, o T, 5134x184 ft, dated March 11 (J. W. Kot~ tlestrings to Willinm Woodrow)., West Adams st, 19 [t w of Oukley av, n f, “40x7 ft, duted Feb. 22 (JohnSigwalt, Jr., 1o Myron A. Decker)....... evrassens West Clybourn pince, 168 ft e of North Paulinu st, n £,24x125 rt, dated Sept. 10, 1880 (Jobn H. Mellor to E. R. F. Hurt)... Forquer st, 100 ft w of Clinton, n £, 25x118 i, dated March 10 (J. H. Boyatoa to J. Belohradsky)..... ....... . . Nute st, 216 {t's of Sixteenth, e f, 24x121 ft, dated Feb. 24 (J. C. Melster to August Mueiler)....... ... o saese . Buttertield st, 217 ft sof Twenty-seventh, w1, 25x100 ft, dated March 11 (John Lef- Her to S. M. PArISH.cveeeiisensiinacnans South Leavitt st, 15 ft n of Van Buren, w f, 25x12 ft. dated Feb. 23 (E. S. Badg- er to Henry T. Wilcox) . .. North Carpenter st, 72 ft s of Carroll av, . .ef, 24x120 ft. dated 3arch 12 (Sarah A. " Albaugn to F. L. Salisbury) ... i State st, 40 £t s of Hurmon court, w £, 0x 138 ft, with 55x40 1t adjowntng on Har- mon_court.in rear of the ubove, dated March 11 (Master in Chaucery to Rich- 2rd S, Cox)........ 0 Waubash av, 0w cor of Dack st, 8 £, 65 {t to river, dated Feb. 25 (Johno D, Lunk- enan, Trustee, to Andrew Crawford)... Cottage place, 525 ft s of Thirty-rst st, ¢ £, 50x110 ft, dated March 10 (Joseph H. Gruy to George A. Hurt)... oo West Washington st, 20 ft w of Western av, o f. 50xE% ft, dated 3tarch 11 (Luey A. Carpenter to_the Chicugo West Di- vision Railway Company). . 15X o 14,550 12,000 4,000 3,300 Hx100 ft, improved, dated Murch 12 (John Mergentbaler to Wuliam C.Seipp) 4,200 SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIOS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Kimbark av, 210 ft s of Chestnut st, ¢ f, 80x175 f1, dated Nov. 27, 1850 (Jured Bus- sett to Mary P. Bussett) $ 2,00 Indiana av, 6% ft n of Forticth V2L X164 1t, dated Dec. 11, 188 (Union Mutu- al Life-Insurauce Compuny to Fraok G. Springer) Lot 12V of Lots on, dated Uct. 2, 1 125 700 Fifiy-eighih st. av and Wright, 8 f, Lots 35 and 36, dated March 11 (John F. Curtis to Oliver T. 3loore). TForty-seventh st, s e cor af Dreyer, 1 f, 25x1% ft,‘dated March 1i (R. Berger to W. Roach).. 5 Robey st, bet fourth. e £. 5 1100 neres, duted March B :}f) J.und W. F. logan to Cal NORTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF , SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Mozart st, 370X ft n of North av, e f, 50x 104 {t, fmproved, dated March 11 (Fred- erick G. Frunk to Carl Wagner)......... Humboldt st, 150 {t s of Wabansia, w f, 30x120 £r. duted March 11 (John John- § 2050 65 ston, Jr., to Jacob Bruppacher) Heine'st, 59 {£ 3 of Armitage av, w_f, 55X 113 ft. dated March 7 (M. und W. D.'Cox 10 M. F. Klees)... 300 SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. ' The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of seven miles of the Court-llouse filed for rec- ord during the wiek ending Saturday, Marel S onsideration, $631,616. orth of city limits—Sales, 7; consideration, $ . South of city limits—Sales, 365 con- sideration, SI, 742 West of city limits—Sales, 9; consideratio, $5.425. Total sales,201; total consideration, 5875,138. - SCIIOOL SITES. ‘The Board of Eaucation has decided to ad- vertise for a school site in the vicinity of AL e and Leavitt strects and Warren and Oakley avenues. ‘They have also'decided to urchase Lots 9, 10, 11, and 12 of Block 16, in Walsh & McMullin’s Subdivision of the S. E. L of See. 23, 39, 14, on West Twentieth street, east of and separate trom the Walsh- Street School by a ten-foot alley, for thesum of £8,350, providing the City Council will va- cate the alley; and Lot 80, Block 19, of Brana’s Addition to Chicago,on the corner of Johnson and \Wright streets, and adjoin- ing the site recently purchased ‘on Johnson street, 24x99 feet, for the sum of 31,25, IN TOE SALES OF THE WEEK were 25x38 on Stewart avenue, north of Meagher street, S18,000; 627x264 on Sixty-sec- ond “street, sontheast corner of Alarket, $15,000; 401{x177}4 on Prairie avenue, nortn of Twentieth, §31,500; undivided half of 50x 100 feet, improved, on West Lake streef southwest corner of Peoria, $25,000; 300x23] on Thirty-seventh street, northeast corner of Stanton avenue, $18,370; 50x1000n West Lake et, southeast corner of Leavitt, 36,2501 24x150 on South Park avenue, gorth of Thir- ty-seventh street, §7,500; 22x62, im- ‘wu\'cgl, on Ogden avenue, north of Washington street, 87,0005 2 acres on Western avenue' boulevard, northwest cornerof Fiftieth street, $10,0003 40x120, iw- proved, on Drexel boulevard, north of Brook street, 243{x149% on rborn avenue, south of Goethe street, S5, 5 on Harmon court, east of Wabash, 6,000; +55x150 on North State, northeastcorner of Scott, $6,600; triangle of four acres at southeast corner o Elston avenue and Webster, $5,000; 50x1250n Green street, north of West Congress, $5,500; 25x102 9-10, improved, on West Twelith, east Stre 2. -of Looowmis, $5,000; on Michi- gan ~avenue, south of hirty-seventh street, $11,0003 20x101, improved, on Ada, north of West \V:\sl’wington. ,000 3 24x100 on Blue Island avenue, east of Twelfth street, with 22 feet to alley in rear of the above, 3142007 150x158K on [lammond street, northeast corner of Eugenie, S$10.230; No. 178 North Curtis, £6,0005 24585 on Stew- art avenue, northwest corner of Meagher, £9,0005 300x125 on_Byford avenue, southeast corner of West Fiftéenth street, §5,000; $0x 119 on \Wabash avenue, south of Twenty- first street, $7,500; 49}4x126 on_\Wabush ave- nue, southwest corner of Thitty-cighth street, with25xE23adjoining on Thirty-eighth, $§8,000; 50x80 on North Clark strect, north west corner of Illinois, improved, $14,050; 25 x114, improved, on Granger street, east of Sedzwick, $5,100, & Property at SOUTH EVANSTON, 3 ‘which is one of the pleasantest of Chicago’s northern suburbs, is in brisk demand this season, several sales of lots at good prices haviye recently been made. Gen. Julius White sold last week ten lots at $1,000 each, and is now building four houses, with others to follow. These houses are soldon monthly payments at a low rate of interest. 5 * RENTS: ‘There is an unexampled demand for busi- ness and oflice accommodations in this eity, About half the oftices in the Grannis Build- ing on Dearborn street, not_yet tinished, have been rented, In the new Borden Bloek, on the northwest cornel’ of Dearborn and Randolph, which will not be ready for tenants for several * weeks, only two offices are unrented. . In the Portland Block, now being enlargéd, all the sixty-nine oftices are taken. The seventy-nine oftices of the Reaper Block, the ninety ' oftices of the Tlonoré Block, and those of the Bryan Block are all rented at advances ranging from 10 to 25 per.cent. L, An Associnted Pressdispatch from Chicazo to New York gives ina few words a vivid and truthful statement of the rise in rents in this city: ,* Tepants find themselves in the dilemaof either havinzto pay a very largely- increased rent or moving to a less desirable neighbdrhood. ants, in refusing to renew leases at what were considered extor- tionate rents, have found themselves unable to tind new quarters. ‘This condition of affairs arises, according to real-estate men, not from thae paucity of building cverations durug the past year, for very muny large and commo- dious buildings have [xcn erected, but from the rush toward the city of new business firms. AVhat is true of rents in the business part of the city is also true of rents for resi- dences, and the 1st of May will witness such a scrawble for houses agwas never seen here before. It now looks: as if many people would be entirely lwmelessl although, ae- cording to the building statisties recently telegraphed, over 5, residences were erected during 1880 in‘this eity. The houses which two years ago rented 0r $30 to $80 per. month, are now bringing from $50 to $125, and even_higher proportionate rates are be- ing fixed jn some cases. In the business por~ tion. the advance ranges.from 15 to 50 per cent. One case is known in which u furni- ture firm which last year paid $5,000, was asked to pay 59,000 for a three s-ems’ lease, and, after casting about and finding no other building available, was compelled to accede to the terms, In another instance, & whole- sale firm in State street, whose rent has been $2,500, will pay S5,300 the. coming year. Agents, as well as renters and owners, “con- sider this a genuine rise in rents, not an en- glneercd case. and it may be stated that the usiness prosperity and growing. activity in every brauch of industry is further warrant for the advance.” B 3 The building now occupied by Schiesinger & Mayer, corner Madison and Peoria streets, has been leased to P. F. Ryan & Co,, dealers in dry zoods. TAXATION OF CHURCH REAL ESTATE. For years past the city has losta larse amount in taxesowing to theexemption from taxation of property—sucil as parsonages, outside lots, and even acres—belonging to churches. ‘The omission of this property from the assessment is glenrlf illegal, and Controller Gurney is having a list of it made, and proposes to see that the Assessors are aware of the facts this year. If this kind of property is assessed, as it should be. the city’s income will be inereased fully $15,000 a year. ‘I'he Improvement Committee of the Vest Park Board at the last meeting of the Board reported in relation to the erection of gates or other protection for teams passing along CENTRAL BOULEVARD, that a conference was held with the officers of the Milwaukee & St. Padl Railway Com- pany, and the officers are averse to any ex- pense for the erection of gates. The Com- wittee recommend that & Viaduet be asked for if it was deemed best at This time, Rémonstrances have been put in circula- tion agadinst the majority report of the Coun- cil Commiittee on Railroadsin favor of adopt- ing cobble-stone pavementsin Chicagostrects which is made the_special order for business on Monday night. All persons opposed to cobble-stone pavements on Tesidence streets are invited to call at once at the office of Enos Ayres, Esq., Room 11 Reaber Block, 95 Ciark street, and sizn remonstrances left there for signatures. 2 ‘The Sonth Division Committee on Streets anul Alleys have agmain deferred action on the VACATION OF LA SALLE STREET, . on account of the failure of the parties inter- ested to agree as to the widening of Pacific avenue and Shenmnan streets, therededication of the street in case the ground is not used by the Board of Trade, and other matie: It is expected there will be 2 'meeting, and it is hoped an agreement on these sub jeets, this Week. g 5 NEW YORK, LIKE CHICAGO, has not houses enough for its people. The New York Herald says that one cause of the advance of rents in New York is that there are not enough houses on Manhattan Island, and that the majority of property-own who erect good houses to rentseem po: ed of the idea that only rich people are 1o live there in the future. .\t present prices of lots sightly and comfortable Touses mizht be erected in_ many respectable portions of the upper wards which at from 3500 to $500 a year would pay a good return on the money sted; but almaost every builder up-town ses for wlich he mus charge from $1,200 to 81,50, and run the ris of having them unoccupied ror a year or two. Builders whq have ot yet determined on the cost of profteted houses will save money by driving avout the built-up distriets near Central Park, and noticing how all small houses not of the clap-trap variety ure gecupled, while many elegant mansions in the same neighborhood ve been empty ever since they were built, E IN SAN FRANCISCO, the Bulletin says the market is character- ized by a fair inguiry, with moderate trans actions, The weather been unusually fine for viewing properties, and intending purchasers are taking advantage of the op~ portunity to extend toe area of their gbser- vations before deciding upon any particular location. Although the building season has not yet fairly set in, there are numbers of blocks and single dwellings in process of con- struction, thus absorbing nearly all the idle mechanical labor, and leaving but few good workmen out of regular employment. 3 CHEAP CITY TRANSIT. 4 To the Edltor of The Chicugo Tribune. CiicaGo, March 12.—The; citizens of Chi- cago will ‘be plad “to. lyarn through Tur ‘Tripy thas the * Hedrick - Transportation "Company® is soon to put on alinéof their coaches in this eity. The vehicle by a_new and ingenious mode ot construction atfords one of the easiest und best means of transit yet offered to the v _Eight passengers, and no more, are allowed in e; ch, and tne fare is 5 cents—six tickets for a quarter ofa dollar. One horse is all that is needed, and when filled the carriage speeds right on, till some of the passengers wish to leave, ‘The Gompany isal_’hilmlen ia institution, where it has met with great suce ‘The Leader speaks of its introduction at Cleve- Iand with enthusiasm, and its advent in Chi- cago will also be hailed with equal p! GOOD ADVICE FOR SMALL INVESTORS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Curcaco, March 12.—~We are now, as I be- lieve, entering upon another period of good wages for workingu and tradesmen, and of acontagious d on their part to buy real estate, because it is advancing in price, and they have spare imon % From long experience and a desire to see workingmen prosper, 1 feel botlt able and disposed to advise them a little in this’ cor- nection, and if others than they can get any good from it they also a re welcome, « In 1872—a veriod sunilar to the better times we think now at hand—all \\'()rki.ng classes made money, and many *saved up* consideravle sums.” Most of 'the wmoney so saved was used in one of two ways,—de- posited in savings ban sted in real estate, Both _depo: stments turned out badly, and many resolved they would never deposis in savings banks or buy real estate amain, But chese resolves are already beginning to be forgotten, and while I know less of the savings-bank branch of the subject, I liear of scores of workingaen inquiring again about real estate purenasés within their means, Wihile a believer in good, honest savings banks, I can but declare, as 2 fact, that those workingmen who bougiit real estate, 1 at the high prices (for them) of 1872, realized much better resuits than those depositing their savings. Yet there are thrge important exceptions to this rule, and.my kesent pur- pose is to mention them, ds a warning for those thinking now of buying: 1. Thosewho bought more than they could ay for, and so lost all they did pay. 'his is pure speculation,.and a dangerous induigence for a laboring man, especially if he has a family. 1f you buy a 32,000 lot and can pay bug $500 on it, and hence lose it, it is better to put it into asavings bank, even though you get but 10 per cent back again, 2, Those who bought * wildeat,” worth- Iess, suburban property _(#ood ouly for corn and cabbage at about 350 ber acre or $5 per lot), and paid faricy prices for it. I don’t re~ fer toour established suburbs, which I have th in.. I think, however, that from il practical standpoints, even our estab~ lished suburbs arevetter suited to the ric, and that they will eventually be more largely so used, leaving more room for worl ingmen nearer their work. But what 1" “do refi to is the wild .prairie **subdivisions,” with no streets, trees, drainage, schools, neighbors, and but few. railroad facilities. 'These, while very good for gardening, faney farming, country seats in tracts of ten to forty acres, at about $30 to §100 per acre, are practically worth- less in single lots, and yet many of them have beensold and_ traded at, say $300, or $3,000, per-acrel I estimate that within twenty miles of Chieazo, and excepting all our establislied suburbs, there are subdivided into lots 57,600 acres, or over 500,000 of these practically useless lots,—one for each of us,— and they ‘have been pretty equally divided. These remarks are not a thrust at suburban property,—far from it. I believe thereis in the near future more prolits, wore eomforts, better health, and_equal safety in our sub- urbs than-in the city, but I do say to a work- ingman, if you buy, buy something you or some ane else can get to and from aud enjoy. 3. Lastly, but not least, those who bought and got a poor title, or_none at all. -Much zood advice could be given on this point, but %filex;fi_st, at_least for the present, state it .| Doi’t buy a lot unless you can buyitcheap enough to afford to hire a govd honest law- yer, and go and see_him before vou pay a dollar on the lot. It is the preliminary con- tract, the * receipt for a deposit” on te lot that often guverns the whole purchase. Have i approve all. papers and examine your abstract. Many buyers think that it the seller furnishes them an “abstract,” the title Isall right, whereas an abstract is merely for o fawyer to read to sea if the title is good, and many a fine, original abstract shows a “bad title. T 2 Absuact-makers, even the Recorder him- well self, guarantees nothing as to the title in their abstracts. They only show the trans- fers, judgzments, etc., and your lawyer must say whether all these show a fiund title. ther puyers are apt to be persuaded to buy without an abstract, because they get 2 war- ranty-deed from a rich seller. This, under our laws, is ‘mor reliance. I, or any good lawyer, would f}mmar a mere quit-clnim-deed ot a good title from the poorest man in Chi- cago to a warranty-deed of a poor title from ong of our millionaires. - In the selection of a lnwgergom.l sense will guide any one. Don’t be too economical about it. "Be shy of a lawyer who will super- vise 4 purchase and examine an abstract for you for $5 or $10. And don’t think your money wasted, or that your attorney i$ in- competent, because he.finds noth! Wrong, and seems to have done you no goo And to a class of lawyers, [say: If a title is good, pass it and tell your client so, and stop the reprenensible “practice of making owners who are selling and their agents useless trouble by quibbling and ralsing fool ohieetmus. just to have seemed smart and to have earned your money. EXPERIENCE, CRIMINAL COURT. Eddy Powers Glven Twenty Years for Kiling a Chinaman. John " Waters was acqultted oa a charge of burglary yesterday in the Criminal Court. Thumas Hallick was found wzulity of Inrceny and under age, and sentence was suspeaded Charles Anderson pleaded gullty to larceny, and was remanded. David McKilvey waa tried for larceny, and acquitted. Luwrence Beattie was granted a new trial on the charge of burglary, and his codefendant was given five years in the Penitentiary, Patrick Smith pleaded guilty to burglary, and was given one year (n the Peni- tentiury. A nolle prosequi was entered in the case of Henry Klhler, William Headerson, John opson, and Johu Curran, {ndicted for attempt- ed Iurceny. Thomus Hickey and Jobn Galvin were on trial for robbery. POWERS GETS TWENTY YEARS, Edward Powers, tor the killing of Ye Mon, the Chinumun, wns sentenced to twenty. years 1m- prisorment in the Penitentiary, on a plen of gullty. Judge Moran, in progouacing seatence, said that he had concluded that the case was one demuanding very severe punishment, and that satlicient mercy had been shown the pris- oner by the State's wecepting che plea of galtty of wansiuugkter. The prisoncr bad admitted himselt to be gullty of mauslaughter, and the evidenco for the prosccution showed that tho ¢rime bordered very closely upon murder. He felt bound to beliéve the statements made by tho witnesses for tho State, it being ¢lear that the defendant had entered the prem- ises where the crime was perpetrated for the purpose of robbery, und the claim that be acted in self-defense was without any foundation Whatever. The deceased.—a Chinamen,—it was true, was not a citizen, but he was a resident of ' the >tate, enguged ina luwful and legitimate business, 20d wus entitled to the protection of tho law to the fullest extent. The boodlums, and men belonging to the eriminal classes who carry revolvers, and use them upon tha slightest provocadon, tie weat on to say, snould be taught tho risk they were running in so dowg, and the interests of the community demanded that they should be severely punished, that they should be put where they would be out or the reach of such weapouns. It was evident to him thut the defendant was a person of criminal hab- its, that he eurried 4 deadly weapon, and was a dangerons man, und the sentence be was about to impose he hoped would impress bis cluss with the idea that the lnw could not he viclated with impunity, and buman life taken at plonsure without just ishinent Leing inflictéd therefor, This sentence, if Powers bebaves himself and does not lose any good time, amounts to eleven yearsand threc months, Besides Powers bas hopes of securing a pardon, though why he should expect oné after such s cowardly mur- der it1s bard to see. e will go to Joliet during toe month. ¥ JUSTICE COURTS ©“Dr.” Lueas R. Williams, or “Dr.Lucas,” as ‘he styles hiwself on dodgers, was arrnigned be- foreJustice Brown yesterday to answer 1o a vio- Intion of the Statc statute in relation to the pructice of wed.cine. Registrar Wright,'of the State Board of Health, was tho complainant. The hearing of the casewas continued until Tuesday:. 5 Hiugh Curran was yesterday held for trial at the Urimlnul Cours by Justice Maorrison to an- swer the -l;nrge of receiving stolen property, & quantity of valued at $25 or $30, tnken from 5.3, Whe store, No. 0 West Van Buren street: some ting ago. - Ball was fixed nt $500. Carran is nlready under $2,000 bonds to answer a charye of burglary in breaking into the North- \\‘Qs(llcru freight-cars and steuling $500 worth of goods. ——mm— FUR AND SOLDER, Fer The Chicago Tribunse There was upou the Western Side— Oue zero-day in Winter-time— A grensy man got in 1 cur, - o} When alf the track was white with rime. His hands were conrse, bis face bemolled- He held a canvus cirpet-sacks But on his breast # dinmond gleamed ‘That took the car-load alf aback. ‘That rem was many carats fine, “And like glowinyg conl could blur 1t fushed [ike low-gsrade kerosene, “And took the rag clean off the bush, aps Zhe duy was chill, and eggs way up: brought. y Six siitlings quick eact dozen A malden in u senl-skin sacque The diamond viewed, deep wrapped in thought. P " The youth bemoiled sighed deep and low; ‘The maiden saw her time right then. Two hearts soft soddered there us one— A plumber be; she owned 2 hen.. “The course of true love don’t run stfck,” Some poet suid who died one duy. There came n thuw—resources stopped, And banished Cupld fur away. That dirmond to 2 butcher weat To puy for steak at fiftecu centsy The sucque a lundiord seized aport ‘to pay u shight advanee in rents Ah! wenther strange results may bring, nd matters to a erisis foree." This incompatibility oon culminated in divorce. A warning take, ye maidens all, And you, young men. your cyes keep peeled: Infi\'mlm‘l. pins and se:lxl;sl'&in sncqufis fad on't always prove their owners beeled. i NEW-MAXN. ———— Grant’s Visit to Washington. g Cincinnati Commnercial. WASHINGTON, March 10.—Gen. Grant, being unused to erowds, concluded to remain in New York during the innuguration, but now that ail is quiet, slip2 sileatly in at the buck door, tukes nn vhscure stand ut Willard's, und sends out in the durkness for his faithtul rlties, and the curious omes are wondering what i3 being planned in secret between himself and Logun, Conkling und Cumeron. The ladles are flocking eround the ex-Presi- dent's wife, and overwhelming her with modest Lenten invitations, and grand wardrobes are being prepared for the inspection of the most- gorweous ot our Presidentiut fdies. T used o go to church just to see Mrs. Grant enter,” snid . young woman. * When the car- ¢ rolled up to the Metropolitan and Mrs. President Grant alighted. the curb- stone was tilled with fdlers. The footman carricd her train into the church, and spread it well out on the carpec as she advanced into the sanctuary. Her toilets were mugniticent, and a new oue every week. The pastor, Dr. Newman, looked and "acted like » Cardinul more thun n Methodist preacher. 1t was ns fine ns it we bud Qucen Victorix and the Dean of Westminster to worship. Of course all The other high ladies of rank dressed guyly too, and it was 2 gorgeous gurden of tho Lord those 1vS. i dl' Sunday {sn’t since what it used to be. Mra. Hayes took her children and walked to the near- est Methodist mecting-house, wore & walking dress, hud neither tran, footman, nor carriuge, and Mrs. Gurheld would rather spend the day rending some metaphysical ltrmmso than take trouble to put on uny style.” I G tame Is very Kind-hearted, and thinks less about fine clothes thun people imaging, said n Senator’s wife, not long since. **She tukes care of all her poor relatives, and the boxes of things she-packed with ber own bunds, and nut with old clothos either, when she was in.the White House, would ustonish you, I have helped per ¢o it muny ‘a time. What a kind friend she is tod; and_bow fonu sheisof her sons’ wives, and they of her. There s something Jovable imnwomun when she: makes a good otaor-in-law.’” m’l‘hc) suy that the passage of Scripture which President Garfield kissed, when be took the oath of ulfice, was, * Every way of man Is right in big own eyes, hut the Lord pondereth the® hearts. * To do Just(cc& and judy;fiemn 18 more accept- ble to the Lord than sacritice. i While the congregatlon at the Christian Church wero singing, lust_Sunday, the second verse of + Welcome Sweet Day of Rest,” and the_crowd, clear to the gate, were traiting to get a peep at the new ruler, he entered to’ the musicof the YR e King bimself draws near, e mbinad with the suardion These coincldents, combined wi d yellow cur_thnt escorted Gurficld to the White House, and the cagle that swooped down on the ridgepole of Gen. Gurlield's wigwam at the pre- cise moment of his nomination at Chicago, seem to point to a very remarkuble Administration. — ———— Carlyle and His Double. Mr. Carlsle, in_his autoblography, speaks of bis double, = T. Carlyle, advocate.”” and * the numerous mistakes, wiliful and fovoluntary, which he, from my 15th year onward, had occa- sioned te, selling his pamphlets as mine. gotting wy letters as bis, and vice versa; nay, once or more with some Ambassador at Berlin dining in my stead; foolish valn fellow, who called me Antichrist withal in his serlous moments.’ ———et——— No one can besick if the stomach, blood, liver, and kidneys are well Hop Bitters keeps them » THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A Grand Mass-Meeting to Be Held" Saturday Week. A Strone Feeling that the New Move Will Be-a Success, A regular mecting of the Public Liorar Board was held yesterday nfternoon, President Onahan in the chalr. There Messrs. Onahan, Callaghsn, Hatz, Walker, Kad- lec, ana Allen. The report of the Committee on Revision of By-Laws wag then taken into consideration, and the changes recommended by the Committee were adopted. Theonly important feature in- troduced wasg the-supplying of people in the reading-room witi: books between the hours ot 9a. m. and 9 p. m. Sundays. No books are to be taken from the buflding, however, during those bours. The other chianges were of minor lm- portance. Mr.James Lane Allen then spoke to the Board atsome length, reviewing the movement that has becn put on foot to bufld a library buildg 8sa fire memoral. He thought it was bound to meet with GRAND. SUCCFSS, and hoped that the meeting to be held 1u the in- terests of the movement one week from next Suturday evenipg would be well attended. Mr. _M‘lendrend the following letter which be had re- ceived: E CextraL Music-HALL OFFICE, CHICAGO, March 7, 188L—2Mr. James Lane Allen—DEAR StR: Your mode of showing to the world that Chicago gratefully remembers the aid sent at the time of the at fire must be unanimously approved. 1t is dignified and worthy of u ureat city, ess(-clnlly as it takes the objective form of a4 building to secure for the people one im- portant branch of educatlon. Asitis only by unfted, prompt public action that a great good "of this nature can be succeessfully ndvanced, [ beg to offer you Fairbank Hall for the purpose of n preparutory meeting und the Central Music-Hail for a genernl meeting, the latter subject to seme necessury restricdons. Yours respectfully, Mps. Gronge B. CARPENTER. Mr. Allen sald he had called on Mrs. Carpenter and arranged to hold the proposed meeting in Fuirbaok Hall at the time stated. On motion, Mrs. Carpenter wus tendered the thanks of the Board. Mr. Callaghna then submitted the following resolutions, which were uoanimously adopted: ' WHEREAS, A movement has been undertaken by public-spirited eitizens of Chicago. to orgun- ize's popular subscription fn order to provide for the erection of a public library bullding, art academy, and museum, tho sume to be n me- morfal forever commemoruting the world’s zen- crosity toward Chicnro followwg the great calamity of the tire, Qetober. 15715 ve it Resolved, Tout this Bourd warmly, nfiprm‘(’s the proposidon formulated by Mr.”N. K. Falr- bank to carry into etlect the project for u public library buildiog, etc. (followlng the susgestion emanating from . member of this Boird), and will give to the undertaking any desired aid ana cogperation in the power of the Board and of the individual members. ‘The Librarinn wus instructed to advertise the meeting by putting placurds in the Library. The Librarian’s report was as I lation of books during February, #5,79%; during corresponding time n 1650, 29,163 increase ingir- lation, 23 per cent; dally average, 1,556, Mr. Poole stated that he had placed the printing of the supplemental finding fists inthe hands of Hazlett, who was the Jowest bidder. 3lr, Onahan sald that he had not henrd whether their bill had pussed the Legislature yet or not, and be hoped the Committee would look ufter it. He also referred to the resolation intro~ duced at 4 recent meeting of the Council pro- viding that THE LIBRARY SHOULD MO VE lato the upper part of the City-Hall after the courts bad left it,on orabout May L It bud been referred to the Committec on Public Build- ings, and he had met the Committee o few- days ago. At that meeting it was decided to refer the matter to the Board of Public Works for an_ estimate as to the expense. Mr. Ona- han said that the fabrarinn and himself were to confer with the Buifiding Inspector Monday on the subject. It was necessary, he sald, to notify the landlord of their present quarters of their intenzions as to the coming yeur, and he thought something should be done avout that at onee. On modion, the matter of - the renewal of the lense was left to the Committeo on Buildings and Grounds, with instructions to report at the next meeting. ‘Tue Seeretary was instructed to have fifty copies of the minutes of the Doard meetings printed berenfter for the use of the Directors. ‘The Committee having in churge the proposed wmeworial bullding were tendered the use of ‘the Directors’ roomn for their meetings. THE MASS-MEETING. l A meeting of the Committee appointed at the Palmer House Friday evening wus beld in N. K. Fairbauk’s office yesterday afternoon for tke purfose of arrunging for the Music-Hall gather- ing in aid of the Public Library. It was decided to bold it Satarday e\'enln;, the 6tk fnst., and to invite Wirt. Dexter, Thomus Hoyne, Arch-. bishop Feebur, Pranklio MacVeugh, E. G. Asay, E. G. Mason, D. L. Shorey, Judge Moran, Emery A. Storrs, W, J, Onnban, W. J.'Hynes. and sev- ernl others to make fve-minute speeches. 1t was decided that no subscription should 'be taken up, but that the meeting should b called { upon 1o appoint a committec on. subseriptions, which wonld be charged witn the work of sol.c- ftng in all purts of the city. 3Mr. Fairbank made a lengthy speech, in which be said that he had no doubt half a million of doiiars could be thus secured, and, though he” did not definitly commit, himself on the subject, he intimated strongly that he knew where another balf mili- jon could be securvd. With 2 million thus se- cured by popular subscription, combined with the larger donations of the wealthy, o memorial of the fire could be erected wnich would bea credit_to the city, and its people, and public men. The meeting adjourned until Monday aft- ernoon at 2 o'clock. FLEUR DES ALPES; Or, Postlethwaite's Last Love. London Punch. - [The /Esthetic Youns Mun rose langeidly fom his seat, and lesning agnins<tx bookecase with tns LUy ln his hapd, lmfll the E’:xuutk‘: Feather In his hair, he readl uloud— 2 Good Philistines all, T don't carry manuscripts about me toread to the likes of you!andif T did you couldn’t understand them—and If you could. I should be Supremely disgusted—more= over, you would have the advantage of me. Butlcun speak plain Eoglisu when it suits meand make myself pretty well understood, when I like—even by such asyourst fore. since you are willing to listen, I will tell you why Iam here to-night, faruway from the Ulmabde Browns—remote, ah me, from the tender companionship of my Maudie! You have never heard of Muudle and Mrs. Cimabue Brown? I dare not. To know them is a Joy, and the privileg chosen few; for they are simply Perfect. in their respecrive perfection, they differentiate from each other withu quite incllubly subtle exquisiteness. » 'or She is Supremely Consummate—wnereas Ho is Consummutely Supreme. I constantly mu\ them so, and they agree with me. 1 also make a point of telling eversbody clse. My mudesty prevents me from revesling to you all they tell me (and everybody else) nbout myself, beyond the mere fuct that they consider mé ulone to combine, tn my own mind and per- son, Supreine Consummateness. with Consum- mute Stpremncy—and I agree with them. We t on uncommonly well together, I can tell you. 1t will not surprise yon, Scemnsz that Iam thus gifted, tobear that Tor the last yearortwol have been quite a Social Celebrity. “1t happened in this wise: . One evening, for want of anything better to #ay, I told Mrs. Cimabue Brown, iu the strictest confidence, that I could siv up all night with o Lily. She was bolding one in her band, a3 usual, Sho wns deeply moved. Her cye mulstened. She said, *Quite so!™ and wrung my flngers. ‘And itstruck her ns such a beautiful thought that she couldn’t help_letting it out before that blunderlng buffoon Grigsby, who alwuss tries to poke his vulgar fun at Maudle and inyself; and Grisby went and toiditto every soulhe knew, as 4 good joke ngainst Mel Now Grigsby, for some reason or other that 1 could never muke out, knows everyLody worth knowing, and cverybody worth kouwlng very natarally wanted to know uman who coldsit up ull night with a Lily! ALily! Justthink of it, ye worthy Philistines! what a flower to have chosen! and for whatsa urposc? How Consummute! How Perfect! Eluw Supreme, Precious, and Biessed! Nay, bow Utter! 1 became the fasnion. These very ad- jectives of mine have grown into household words. Even Grigsby uses them now, and about me of nll peop le; me, whom b pretends to bate! ‘For does be not call me, and tomy very fuce, 100, 2 Supreme duffer, & Consummate ass, & Blessed |d|nt.fllPrenil)us 1"00I. u Perfect noodle, v Nincompoop! nn}g;)!: %fi}iny: \\'n‘:’& ‘::n utter sell for him! ‘But he lacks the real scnse of humor! 2 1had mitatoss, ot course. Icun hardly call them rivals. Piicox declured he could sit up all might with 2 Stephapotis—and uctually did so, L betieve, and was seedy for o month in conse- quence! And as for Milkington Sopley, he swore he never went to bed without ua Aloe Blossum! o _thing that only huppens onccina century! They nvurdlll.l it. They always do. by letthem nlone. Anlfi\!gx;lgzn:on Itook Maudle aside, and whis- pe'red to bim (in the benring of Grigsbs) that 1 ‘sat up all night with o Primrose. Ithought ita capital chagge after the Lily. So simple, you know! And weall went in for.simplicity just then, even the_little Cimabue Drowos! And what a soll for Pldl(g)x gnd lSluDsls:y. with their lossoms und Stepbanotises! ‘ufierl‘ir rolled down the Perfect cheek of Mau- dle (for his cheek i3 almost &5 consummate ns mine); pressing me to his bosom, he said, *Dis- tinctly 501" Grigsby let of a biz D.,and went forti tike an indignant lamb to spread the news d. nl?(“ook immediately: the people worth know- ing (Grigsby’a people, ha! hal) literally fought for m rigsby wus nownere. Pilcox followed sult with a Marigold, or a Dan- dellon. or some such twaadling superanauated old weed. And Sopley,-poor boy! tried it on with a Soowdrop, s0 he sald; but it was in June, sou know, and didn’sdo gt all. They overdid it were' present -| usual, and were out of it again! The " hey aln’t got no trek,”-as Grizsoy a:ys' :'::,",: be wants tobe funny. And as for the sense of bumor, they are a3 bualy off a3 Grigsby himsalf. . Besides which, Pllcox gets his clothes ready- made at Ephraim Brothors, in the Strand, or somewhere. And Sopley can't bear up nxainst & soub from a lady of title. It upsets his stomach, and he goes home and tells his mother and sis- ig:.;md then they tell everybody il round. all - 4 g Now, the Lity had carried me through my first scuson, the Primrose through my second. The question urose: What Flower of "Flowers is to curry me through my next? 1t must be simpler than tho Primrose, rarer than the Lily, and as consummate and all that a3 either; and suc) moreover, a3 to rile Grisby to madness, ane leuve Sopley aud Piicox sticking in the mud for the rest of their lives. 1 sat up all nignt with & Botanical Dictionary, and hit upon rhe very Hower at lnst—the Uttar Blossom! The Perfect Thing!! Od. my Gris- by! It will be che death of youl And you, Pro= {%:I?&:lé}em:flt‘k& I(lo(‘f well to your laurelsl 3 astroke of Genius, and will carry. 00 10 1853—or even 4! m-c And that Is why I am here to-night. & Good Philistings, every one, you are witnesses Gheh.‘ol—u.nd when called upon to do so (by o hl;gg‘sny. for instance) must testify to the fact t I Jellaby Postlethwaite, was actually caught, by an fatelligent little quadruped an~ Swering to the name of Toby—ina snow-storm at mldviLn'ler. 9,00 feet above tho level of the %m. lat. 72 deg. 53 min. N., long. 7 deg. 12 min. ns'fi%g&lgs;fi&vur?h kcin:ufmmncm. and at ual ris myself, in the vory act o L icoavenieace to SIITING TP ALL .\'un'rrl WITH AN EDEL~ WEISS (Here the Esthetic Postlethwaite prods a (’!flxel(lle;]?;"cvlgun.?smelé it nnsslnmfiel}.ucegnfl . Puncl Z snilts did 1t revived him." Three VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Mr. Raster and the Judgeship, To the Editor of The Chicopo Tridune, ° CRICAGO, March 11.—~In one of your special dispatches from Washington I find this passages **Inadditlon there was a telegram from the Journalists Joseph Medill, Hormann Raster, snd 'W. P. Nixon, stating that Mr. Isham was thete cholce.” I have signed no telegram stating that Mr. Isham was my choice, but only a telegram re- ?uesttflg the President to make the appointment’ rom the Illinofs district for the vacant position upon the Supreme Bench, and not Irom the Oklo district, which already had two seats on that bench, while our district had noome. I did.so stating distinctly to the gentleman who pre- seated the telegram for my signature that I would not sign it if it was a petition tor the appuintment of Mr, Isham, because I did not believe that_the ‘mdre fact of that gentieman's partner having been given a position mn the Cubinet was a suflicient reason for deeming him better qualitied for s place on the Suprome Bench than he would have been thought to be three weeks ago by nincty-nine out of every hundred wto now recommend his appointment. Very respectfully, HERMANY RASTER. ‘“Cobble Stones.” To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Ci1cago, March 12.—The rosidents on strests on which the street-cars are run are much ex: cited and very indigoant at the renewed a tempt of the street-railway companies to force upon them the intolerable and infernal cobble- stne nuisance. This is the third attempt of these monopolies. after having been defeated by the almost unanimous remonstrance of the res- idents on those streets, to smuggle this meas- ure through the Citv Council. ere can bs go vossible reugon why these close corporations, who bave made milifons of money by the free use of our best streets, and have nimost entirely esca payment of taxes, should now be permitted to fill these streets with cobble-stone pavements.' This pavementisnot only an intolerable nuisance 1o residents, but to all parties driving or team- ing, and_one of the avowed reusons for its use is that it will drive all teaming and driving from those streets, thus virtuazlly confiscating all ear-track streets to the use of the corpora- tions. It does not seem possible that the City Council can go so far as to force this devlish nuisunce upon so large and respectable a body of their constituents. There may be some reg- son for the use of stone for all pavements in the business centre of the city; but the attempt to force cobble-stones upon our residence streets, against the almost uoanimous pratest of the residents, will be resisted by all the ald ot law, votes, and intluence of those whose home com- forts and property rights are so unnecessarily sacrificed. JusTICE. The New Library. To the Editor of The Chicago Tridune, CHICAGO, March 12.—The proposition “ to or- panizea popularsubscription to builda Public Li- brary and an Academy and Museum for the pur~ pose of commemoruting tho world's generosity extended to our city after the fire of 1871, is in the right direction. It may be hoped that all commemorative monuments may be hereafter such as shall combine practieal, active utility with the event commemorated. We need no- monument to remind us our great misforfunes. These are easlly rcmombe; for they appeal to our selfish intercste. But gratitude for favors received IS as rarc as - an ostentations show' of It would be in bad taste. The thousands who poured tholr sympathizing offorings into Chicago™ after the great fire, thought 9f no IMonUMent,— - it was an eutpouring of the love of the ncigh- A ¢ ‘bors that sought 10 alleviate suffering; and to - - restore as fur as they could that which had been’ destroged. Hence the contributions to the Law Library, and the nucleus of the Public Library, and the contributions to the Historical Soclety. Now, while I quite agree with the proposition adopted at the meeting at tho Palmer House last eveuing, I think it should be_cnlurged 308 to - include the placlog of the Academy of Sctences, the Astronomical Soclel and the Historieal Society on . their— legs agnin. ‘These institutions were established and malntained. not exclusively, but to a great extent, before the great contlagration, by per-, sons who lost their all in that and subsequent fires end the panic. Enchof these ‘institutions are afloat, but they ail have their flags at half- mast, and must remain so unless n popuhr sub- scription or the generous heart of Chicago, If there {s such a thing, come to their relief. There are a large number of public-spirited men in. business who bave nmassed fortunes in Chicago within the lust ten_years, and who, it ought not* to be doubted, if“appealed to in o proj g 1" e . munner, would at once unite ing these institutions outof their pres: ent embarrassed und semi-lifeless - condition. The primary idex of those Who came to our re- iief in 1571 was to ald those who bud suffered through the great contlagration. Shall’ we not most worthily commemorate their charity by following their example in relieving those insti- tutions which have suffered so much through the same calamity? . © g 1 deter to unother oceasfon the calling of pub-- lic attention fo the rare and valuable objects possessed by these institntions, but I will not, torbear fu this paper to suzyest that Dearborn’ Purk shoutd be ontained for the mouumental building which is propozed to be crected. Shoud the suggestionspreseated intbis paper be favor- ably received, I may send you another . com- munication on the subject. Yours, ete., J. YOUNG SCAMMON. The 01d People’s Elome—An Outrage. | To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO, March 12.—Permit me to remind the readers of Tne TRIBUNE who feel an (nterest in the charity for old people which this institution was designed to promote, that tha annual meet- - ing for etecuon ‘of Directors. will be beld. the first week in 3May next at the Home, northwest, corner of Inna avenue and Thirty-ninth street. To becume & life member, with the right to vato at all such incetings. It s only necessary that a person should pay 35 for the benefit of tne Home at least thirty duys before such meet- iog. This institution, commundug un estate of probably £20.00. and having in chargo the tew- poral ielfare of about sixty aged io- mutes, is cosmopolitan and liberal in theory, but in its present management narrow, uncharituble, and appressive. It is to be hoped that a suilicient numberof our citizens will interest themselves in this matter in time. Saluries unreasopable fn amount are lavish puid, und employ(s are retained apparently for favor and not from nccessity. That lager beer gous in at the door or the Home freelyisan open secret, but that it is designed for or resl- ized by aged stomachs we deny. In a charitable fnstitution we are opposed to puddings for the manugers and potutoes for the managed. spectable women who were once surrounded by lov friends now _trombling —with e, ORE sublocted 1o such insults’ a3 these; * You lle.” “You cat too much” “You're too lazy to wock. You're not sick, ou're only pinglng off.” “I've got wealtby {vumen to back me and 1 don't care what Sudney writes.” *I'll be bere next Christmus, but you won't.” *We'll get o new luw and then we'll show you."” Thus, with the utmost refinement of cruelty, these old people, 70 and 80 years of age, ut their own home, by their own' fire- side, where nobody but a friend has the right 1o enter, are insulted and abused. | To-day, w‘nj: no opportunity to defend herself, one of inmates, who 19, I belicve, over 80 years old, and who has been visiting lately the family of Judge Booth In this city, recelved the foflow-. ing letter frum her “home™: | SR ' :opLE'S HOME, CRICAGO, Marc! = (S OnLES Bk, CERASS, Ml S dismixsed from the Old Feople's Home by the proper authorities, and L am_direcwed not asainas an'iomate. You are at Uberty atsny time to send for nd take dway any. provetty’ of, eff lonata 1o you ROY R A- SHAXKLAND, Matron. Through this cold March storm, while [am writing lxhl! aurticte, this oid Indy is pushfug ber footsteps to the door of the Home, there to be spurned and spit upun, and driven out Into storm and slect with a broken heart. e 1 appeal to the vood seuse, the sympathy, and the charity of the public to slacun: to thede old euple what they are powerless to ! &eguel\'es: a just, humane, -and considerats management for the Home. These old people dare not speak for themsealves, and many times theirsilence s misconstrued - into Submission. They feel all tne indignity which bas been. beaped u%cn them, a%d xeg;'l‘g:rm’q_a man-: agems tained by a. ladleas S i sms'r! Ta¢ 0MAS.